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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.He turns 68 in a few weeks, why would he want to go back to busting his ass as an assistant coach?My prediction is Dante Scarnecchia is going to come out of retirement.
There's a ton of other stuff like techniques and the mental game with blitzes.
I know there are techniques and such but the bottom line is it doesn't take much brains to be an offensive lineman
It's not like there's a whole lot of plays these guys have to remember or routes to run. All they have to do is block the guy in front of them. Either they're good at it or they are not.
Players like cannon are not and no amount of coaching will ever change that.
I mean, again, let's not get too revisionist here. He did a really good job last year. This year the line regressed, under very difficult circumstances. But I (would like to) think there are more reasons for his canning than just performance alone, certainly yesterday.Rex fired him or let him hit the pavement.
How he landed with NE always made me wonder why?
wasn't googs fault, the players didn't " do their job " in fact, must of them sucked. mason only allowed one pressure everyone else was bad. kline/cannon fodder and vollmer were disasters.
Maybe I'm alone, but I find this move really surprising. People have short memories: by the end of last season we are all pretty high on Googe for being able to make do with a crappy unit. I get it, it only got worse this year, but there was a ton of injuries, and the constant revolving door is a lose-lose situation... I also don't know if blaming the regression of Stork is enough either. Are we throwing Chad O'Shea under the bus for LaFell? Did we kill Boyer for the way the CBs played until the Talib/Revis era?
Call me crazy, but outside of Dean Pees (who per Howe may have left on his own accord?) this move feels so unusual for NE that I wonder if there was an edict from "above" that heads had to roll for yesterday's failure. Also, this too is pure conjecture, but I wonder if McDaniels and Googe did not see eye to eye through the course of the season.
Jeff Howe @jeffphowe 4m4 minutes ago
I can't even think of the last time the Patriots fired a coach.
You couldn't be more wrong. Offensive linemen do a ton of adjusting on the fly via calls at the line of scrimmage (normally from the center) and also by the quarterback vs. defensive alignments/movement -- all directly prior to snap. Some of the pre-snap protections call for split-second changes in assignment involving combination blocks, pulling and filling, etc. or changing from pass blocking to run blocking (and vice versa). Offensive linemen need to be very smart.I know there are techniques and such but the bottom line is it doesn't take much brains to be an offensive lineman
It's not like there's a whole lot of plays these guys have to remember or routes to run. All they have to do is block the guy in front of them. Either they're good at it or they are not.
Very surprised. A very unpatriot like move to make a decision day after the game, especially considering the injuries the oline dealt with this year. Googs cant fix cannon.
Very surprised. A very unpatriot like move to make a decision day after the game, especially considering the injuries the oline dealt with this year. Googs cant fix cannon.
Are you sure the last part of this statement is true? Stork good last year, cannon better last year. When guys are sliding backwards in that profession it's easy to link to ineffective coaching.Very surprised. A very unpatriot like move to make a decision day after the game, especially considering the injuries the oline dealt with this year. Googs cant fix cannon.